Used on Loveless, as mentioned in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

With the help of engineer Harold Burgon, Shields and Ó Cíosóig programmed the drum parts using Steinberg’s Pro24 software in the Atari ST computer, triggering the sampled sounds in an Akai S900. “It was very similar to what he would’ve played,” Shields points out, “just programmed, with the same drum sounds. The Akai was a good sound. I think that’s the thing that people don’t appreciate is that a lot of the digital stuff that was made in that era... the people who were creating the filters and everything, essentially they’d been listening to analogue all their lives.

"I used the Steinberg Pro24 sequencer this time, mostly as a recording system, so that I could record and multitrack at home and put it on tape later in the studio. You can quantise on it, which I think is a terrible tool that shouldn't be allowed. It does something curious to the music. We played some parts again by hand, as it sounded better, particularly with real drums."

"I mainly use Logic synced to the room and all clocks, I also like Renoise sometimes. I use an Apple Macintosh, though most of our earliest Skinny Puppy stuff etc., up until the new albums, we used an Atari 1040 ST with Steinberg Pro 24 sequencer, very primitive!"

In this post, Captain talks about using the Steinberg Pro-24 software back in the days

In this photo it shows Dwayne Goettel in their studio with an Ensoniq ESQ-1, Ensoniq Mirage, E-Mu EMAX, Akai S900. There is an effects rack with a Lexicon PCM 41, a pair of Korg SDD-1000s. In the background is an Atari 1040ST running Steinberg Pro 24 sequencing software.

EQUIPMENT LIST

RECORDING Akai S1000 Sampler + Hard Drive Alesis HR16 Drum Machine Atari 1040ST Computer Casio CZ230S Synth E-mu Systems Proteus Sample Reader Korg M1 Workstation Oberheim Matrix 1000 Synth Module Roland D110 Synth Module Roland Super JX Synth Module Steinberg Pro24 v3 Sequencing Software Yamaha RX5 Drum Machine Yamaha TX81Z Synth Module

Q. At what point did you start to use computers for music making and can you remember what your initial sequencer was?

"Initially I used the UMI sequencer - the one that crashed every time you breathed. I then did a lot of stuff on my first solo album, Transportation, using Pro 24. I didn’t feel like a cheat because I’d been into technology for years but I did a whole piano track called Rakaia River (Mountains To Sea) using a Technics piano and Pro 24, no proper playing. When Miles Copeland came down and I told him, he looked a bit disturbed by the prospect. I had a blast creating that album though - using technology to the maximum."

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

"The time depicted, the early 80s, was pretty much the time I started making and programming music. My first Atari, running Steinberg Pro-24. So in many ways, this did feel like coming full circle. That being said, the 80s aspect was an important part, but not the only aspect that went into writing this music."

He got his first experience with computer sequencing while producing a solo album with his now wife, Toni Halliday, before she was in Curve. “We did the album together and I had to learn Steinberg’s Pro 24 program to do the demos,” says Moulder.

"The studio monitoring is via an HH amp which powers a pair of Tannoys and I've got a number of signal processors including two Yamaha SPX90 multi-effects, an Alesis XT digital reverb, Roland and Korg digital delays and a Drawmer gate. And I have the Atari computer with the Steinberg Pro-24 sequencer software as well."

"Up until recently we used the Yamaha QX1 sequencer with great success but that wasn't a popular machine - people didn't realise how brilliant it was. It was a really excellent machine. The only problem was it wouldn't record an external sync signal, but there are ways around that as well. Our problem was we were always running out of tracks because the QX1 only has eight. We were finding we were doing more and more things before we actually put them on tape. So then we changed over to the Steinberg Pro-24."